شمع اور شاعر

جب یہ جمیعت گئی، دنیا میں رسوا تو ہوایعنی اپنی مے کو رسوا صورت مینا نہ کر

English translation

Keep the love concealed in your heart’s veil still; that is do not disgrace your wine like the decanter.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 53 of 86 in “⁨شمع اور شاعر⁩” (The Candle And The Poet) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

۵۳ / ۸۶